A British General, an American General and a German General walk into a bar. Not a joke unless you want to laugh at the hokum that they’re spouting.
Was the 1969-70 television comedy Up Pompeii! with Frankie Howerd a favourite amongst those who rose in the ranks of the British military? Was their favourite character Senna the soothsayer? Did that character make such an impression upon them that ever since they have been crying at any and every opportunity, ‘Woe, woe and thrice woe!’ The latest is ex head of the army, Sir Patrick Sanders.In a piece in the MailOnline he is quoted as saying,
‘Britain must start building bomb shelters immediately to prepare the nation for a potential war with Russia in the next five years.’
Putting various bits and pieces together 2030 seems to be the year in which NATO is preparing for in order to take down Russia.
A 'realistic possibility' is what he calls that war. In the meantime it’s time to start preparing the sandbags and the gas masks and to start building Anderson shelters. Got to be like the Boy Scouts and be ready for
‘ the prospect of missiles and drones raining down on its cities.’ Except apparently we’re not. How warming such concern is coming from a member of the establishment.Although didn’t he have to sell his physical/mental labour power to survive in a capitalist system? Doesn’t that make him working class?
Of course, being a General he must know what he’s talking about, mustn’t he? Joke intended.
'If Russia stops fighting in Ukraine, you get to a position where within a matter of months they will have the capability to conduct a limited attack on a Nato member that we will be responsible for supporting, and that happens by 2030,' he said. Which state does he mean?
An interesting insight he does provide is that the Government, he doesn’t say which Party was running it, had dismissed shelters as ‘too costly or low priority.’.
'Finland has bomb shelters for 4.5million people. It can survive as a government and as a society under direct missile and air attacks from Russia. We don’t have that.' Perhaps we should all emigrate to Finland then?
He’s also concerned about the size of Britain’s military which would comfortably fit in Old Trafford football stadium.
Of interest is the statement that ‘Sir Patrick had previously been barred from giving a speech warning that conscription could be required in the event of a major war, amid concern from ministers it would terrify the public.’
Wouldn’t it be terrible if they declared war and no one showed up to fight it?
Kaliningrad] known as Königsberg[ until 1946, is the largest city and administrative centre of KaliningradOblast,an exclave of
Russia between Lithuania and Poland (663 kilometres (412 mi) west of the bulk of Russia), located on the Pregolya River, at the head of the Vistula Lagoon, and the only ice-free Russian port on the Baltic Sea. Its population in 2020 was 489,359. Kaliningrad is the second-largest city in the Northwestern Federal District, after Saint Petersburg and the seventh-largest city on the Baltic Sea.
Kaliningrad Oblast is the westernmost federal subject of Russia. It is a semi-exclave on the Baltic Sea within the historical Baltic region of Prussia, surrounded by Poland to the south and Lithuania to the north and east. The largest city and administrative centre is the city of Kaliningrad. The port city of Baltiysk is Russia's only port on the Baltic Sea that remains ice-free in winter. Kaliningrad Oblast had a population of roughly one million in the 2021 Russian census. It has an area of 15,125 square kilometres (5,840 sq mi). Wiki.
American General Christopher Donahue has said, Kaliningrad, Russia, is roughly 47 miles wide and surrounded by NATO on all sides and the Army and its allies now have the capability to “take that down from the ground in a time frame that is unheard of and faster than we’ve ever been able to do.”
“We’ve already planned that and we’ve already developed it. The mass and momentum problem that Russia poses to us … we’ve developed the capability to make sure that we can stop that mass and momentum problem.”
‘German General Christian Freuding has advised Ukraine to ‘ strike Russia. airfields and weapons factories deep inside the country to alleviate pressure on the front.’,
“You can also indirectly affect the offensive potential of Russian strike forces before they are deployed,” Freuding said. “Use long-range air warfare assets to strike aircraft and airfields before they are used. Also, target weapons production facilities.”
Freuding also lamented that despite Western sanctions, Russia has increased its production of drones, cruise missiles, and ballistic systems. “We must reconsider whether our economic measures have been sufficient and where we can apply further pressure, particularly to limit Russian production capabilities,” he said.
The general also pointed to the limitations of US-made Patriot air defence missiles against waves of Russian drones. “It [a drone] costs around €30,000-50,000 ($34,000–58,000) depending on the model. It’s wasteful to shoot it down with a Patriot missile costing over €5 million. We need countermeasures that cost €2,000–€4,000, especially as Russia aims to further increase its production capacity,” he explained.
Meanwhile, Freuding confirmed earlier this month that Ukraine would receive the first batch of long-range missiles financed by Berlin before the end of July. Germany, however, has been reluctant to send Taurus long-range missiles due to escalation concerns.’
Siegfried Sassoon’s first world war poem ‘The General’ tells of two British soldiers who meet a General as they are slogging their way ‘up to Arras with rifle and pack.’ The General wishes them both a good morning. One soldier says to the other, ‘he’s a cheery old card.’ The final line of the poem is ’But he did for them both with his plan of attack.’
The longer we allow the capitalistic system to continue the more likely that its plan of attack will do for us all.
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